That's a form of sock puppeting, which is not allowed. Upvote on your own terms, not because someone else told you to do so.
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gunr2171Jul 2 '14 at 19:18

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@gunr2171 Sock puppeting would be creating multiple accounts just to upvote yourself. This is a type of voting fraud that is separate from sock puppeting.
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ServyJul 2 '14 at 19:32

..But the term Sock puppeting is suitable here also, as the user upvote post without checking the quality and content of the post just because other user told,Dont you think the same?
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AmoghJul 2 '14 at 19:37

If you have to ask your friends to up-vote your posts, you probably don't deserve the up-votes, as I would presume your friends would up-vote it without you asking if it were truly a good post.
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Jason CJul 20 '14 at 0:34

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We highly recommend that you not ask your friends to vote for your content simply because you were the one who left it. We do recognize that people will naturally tend to vote for people they know, and only step in when this becomes a bad enough problem that it is skewing votes on questions and answers. We even have a standard message that we send out about this, which I'll quote from here:

We recently noticed a substantial number of votes on your account to
or from specific users. While we encourage everyone to upvote great
posts, the motivation for doing so needs to be anchored in the merits
of the post, not the person who wrote it. This is just a reminder to
please refrain from targeting specific users when voting.

Stack Exchange works by ensuring that the best information rises to
the top. Voting specifically for content that benefits your friends,
family or colleagues unfairly skews that system, and continuing to do
so can result in a lengthy suspension for all involved.

The system has processes in place to detect various types of voting
between groups of users, so if you know anyone who may be voting for
your stuff in kind, please ask them to refrain before the system
detects such activity and takes similar actions on their account.

This is often just a simple misunderstanding, so no harm done. But
continued activity of this sort can result in a prolonged suspension
for all involved, so please let me know if you have any questions
regarding this policy.

Is it not acceptable to go around upvoting all of your friends' posts, no. Can we stop it...sometimes. We do what we can. Of course, sometimes the behavior isn't really distinguishable from real votes, but the mods and devs do what they can.

If you suspect a particular user is committing some form of voting fraud, flag one of their posts and explain what you believe to be happening and what reason you have to believe that it's going on and someone will look into it.

Developers tend to be antisocial creatures. Even if you have 100+ contacts among all the social networks you use combined, you'll probably only have a handful friends in your real life.

Stack Overflow has an amount of active users that is quite more than a handful[citation needed]. I believe in nearly all cases any upvotes that are awarded based on friendship should be more than offset by downvotes awarded due to a question being half-assed. No need to worry too much about that.